Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, A Historical Tale., part 6, sentence 11
We beg you to forgive us, and we will make good the damage we have done."
Who acts: We · What happens: beg, forgive, make, do · To what, where: you, us, damage
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, A Historical Tale., part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 beg | nsubj |
| 2 | beg | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 beg | obj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 forgive | mark |
| 5 | forgive | forgive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 beg | advcl |
| 6 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 forgive | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 make | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 make | cc |
| 9 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 make | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 make | aux |
| 11 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 beg | conj |
| 12 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 make | xcomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 damage | det |
| 14 | damage | damage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 make | obj |
| 15 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 done | nsubj |
| 16 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 done | aux |
| 17 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 damage | acl:relcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 beg | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 beg | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beg speech: request | present | We | you | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | forgive | to-infinitive | We not said here | us | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme | ||||
| 3 | make | future | we | the damage | good property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent damage=Product | |||
| 4 | do | present · perfect | we | the damage not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent damage=Eventuality |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Project Gutenberg book 74323 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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